What I want (And I am sure others would) is the option to set an
Appointment time but to have an addjustable sliding buffer for the pre and
post arrangements.

I often have to attend a 1.5 Hr appointment at 10:00am in the city, however
I am at least 20min from that location.

So, to stop others booking me from up to 10:00am or at 11:30, and to manage
taxi/travel times etc, I will book my time out from say 9:30 to 12:00.
However this does not work so well when I have an appointment in a distant
place, with large amounts of travel OR lots of appointments.

In addition others may be invited and I have had them turn up on site at
9:30 when the meeting is for 10:00. At present I am now forced to add TWO
extra appointments for every one that I am to attend or that I call.

Why can't there be a travel / buffer that you can set to an appointment. I
am sure that it would take very little extra coding and you could have it ON
or OFF as part of the config or by default set to 0 min..

Options:
1: Pre and Post Appointment - Equal
2: Pre and Post Appointment - Diferent
3: These could be set as default or adjusted as required.

If some one was to send a standard appointment to me, then as part of the
acceptance, I would then be able to adjust the "travel"/ buffer times to
suit. This would be reflected on my system, not theirs. If I was to send
an appointment, I could chose to set the Pre and Post Appointment time when
I accept the appointment, and the other recipients would have the same
option.

For a Posted appointment, it would need to be availabe in that view.

As one who can attend 4 meetings in diferent places, across a city in one
day, this mod would make my life much simpler.

If any one knows of an addin or how I could do this please let me know.

Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 combination allows something like this but I have not yet installed Exchange 2007 to test all of its improvements (waiting for SP-1 to get out of beta.)

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After furious head scratching, Mark asked:

| What I want (And I am sure others would) is the option to set an
| Appointment time but to have an addjustable sliding buffer for the
| pre and post arrangements.
|
| I often have to attend a 1.5 Hr appointment at 10:00am in the city,
| however I am at least 20min from that location.
|
| So, to stop others booking me from up to 10:00am or at 11:30, and to
| manage taxi/travel times etc, I will book my time out from say 9:30
| to 12:00. However this does not work so well when I have an
| appointment in a distant place, with large amounts of travel OR lots
| of appointments.
|
| In addition others may be invited and I have had them turn up on site
| at 9:30 when the meeting is for 10:00. At present I am now forced
| to add TWO extra appointments for every one that I am to attend or
| that I call.
|
| Why can't there be a travel / buffer that you can set to an
| appointment. I am sure that it would take very little extra coding
| and you could have it ON or OFF as part of the config or by default
| set to 0 min..
|
| Options:
| 1: Pre and Post Appointment - Equal
| 2: Pre and Post Appointment - Diferent
| 3: These could be set as default or adjusted as required.
|
| If some one was to send a standard appointment to me, then as part of
| the acceptance, I would then be able to adjust the "travel"/ buffer
| times to suit. This would be reflected on my system, not theirs. If
| I was to send an appointment, I could chose to set the Pre and Post
| Appointment time when I accept the appointment, and the other
| recipients would have the same option.
|
| For a Posted appointment, it would need to be availabe in that view.
|
| As one who can attend 4 meetings in diferent places, across a city in
| one day, this mod would make my life much simpler.
|
| If any one knows of an addin or how I could do this please let me
| know.